Hang in there re: recent Wetpixel slowness. We had a few weeks of smoother operation but the server is being hit hard as more and more people come check us out. This coming January, we're upgrading both the server hardware and software the board runs on, which should help out a lot.

Personally, I use the site mostly from California and load times are almost always just fine.

The page runs a trace from wetpixel to the browser, which is more meaningful than from the reader to wetpixel. This is because there is much more traffic going from wetpixel to the reader than the other way around, and internet is often routed asymmetrically.

Note that many images are now hosted on a second machine. It will take time to load them the first time, but because there are a limited number of images, once your browser caches them all the site should be very fast.

definitely better from the south of france as well, though my work connection is still weird. it's fine for the first 2 threads and then slows down again, not as bad as before though... (i tried iexplore 6.x and firefox (1.x and 2.0)
thanks for all the efforts eric
/paul

The changes I made are pretty minor. For me a page loads in about 5-6 seconds now. That used to be 7-8 seconds before my changes. Barely noticeable unless you're looking for it like i am. Most sites I use daily are comparable in speed to wetpixel for me.

People that consistently get pageloads longer than about 15 seconds could help by installing the firefox plugin 'Firebug' and use the 'Net' tab to see where the majority of the time is spent.